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• US President Donald Trump has announced he fired his hard-line national security adviser, John Bolton, saying he disagreed "strongly" with him.


• "I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning," Mr. Trump tweeted, adding he would appoint a replacement next week.


• But Mr. Bolton insisted he had quit and vowed to have his say "in due course".


• He had disagreed with the president on a number of foreign policy challenges, from Afghanistan to Iran.

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• Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza hours after rockets from the Palestinian enclave triggered sirens that forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the stage at an election rally in Israel.


• The Israeli military said 15 targets were hit, including a weapons manufacturing facility, a naval compound used by militants and tunnels belonging to Hamas, the dominant armed force in Gaza.

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• Malaysia prepared to seed clouds after air quality in parts of the country reached unhealthy levels due to smog from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia, an official said.


• Smog regularly blankets parts of Southeast Asia during the dry season when burning is used to clear Indonesian land for palm oil, paper plantations and other crops, sparking ire from regional neighbors.


• In the latest outbreak, parts of Malaysia's eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo island have been blanketed over the past few days.


• The pollutant index in some places has reached "very unhealthy levels", said Gary Theseira, special functions officer with the environment ministry.

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• Japan's environment minister says contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant may have to be released into the ocean because storage space will run out in 2022.


• More than a million tonnes of water that has been used to cool melted reactors is kept in giant tanks.


• Fisherman's groups are strongly opposed to the idea but many scientists say it would pose a low risk.

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• Authorities in London have planned to extend the work visas of foreign students studying in British universities by two years.


• The return of the two-year post-study work visa for international students was reintroduced by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He announced this as one of the government measures to boost numbers of overseas students after Brexit, according to the British media reports.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu extended greetings to the nation on the occasion of Onam.


• In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Greetings on the auspicious occasion of Onam! May this festival further the spirit of happiness, well-being, and prosperity in our society."


• The office of Vice-President in its tweet wrote, "On the auspicious occasion of Onam, I extend my heartiest greetings and congratulations to the people of the country.


• Onam is celebrated in the memory of Mahabali, the famous mythological king of the Kerala region during whose ideal public welfare rule, peace, and prosperity prevailed in the state."

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• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is set to receive the first of 36 Rafale fighter jets in Paris on October 8 the foundation day of the Indian Air Force, government sources said.


• They said Mr. Singh, accompanied by Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar and several other senior bureaucrats, will travel to Paris on October 7 on a three-day visit, primarily to receive the Rafale jet.


• Top military brass of France as well as senior officials of Dassault Aviation, the makers of Rafale, will also be present at the handing over ceremony.

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• The interest and rights of every Indian citizen shall be protected and those who have illegally entered the country shall be dealt as per law, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani said here.


• Ms. Irani who was in Kolkata to mark 100 days of the Narendra Modi government, was responding to questions on the possible implementation of National Register of Citizens ( NRC) in West Bengal.

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• Article 370 was encouraging the inflow of Pakistani terrorism, says Shringla.


• Some sections of the American media, especially the liberal media, is focussed on a perspective on Kashmir that has being “pushed forward” by those who are “inimical” to India’s interest, the country’s ambassador to the United States has said.

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• India’s decision to shut down oil imports from Iran due to sanctions imposed by the United States is also hurting India-Iran bilateral trade and India’s future in Chabahar port, said Iranian Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni.


• In the first public comments about the government’s decision to fall in line with U.S. sanctions and “zero out” oil purchases after May 2 this year, the Ambassador said India had “fought hard for its independence” and should not have given in to “unilateral sanctions” from the U.S.

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• Delhi will soon have its own education board that will not be a replacement for the CBSE but a next generation board to help students prepare for entrance examinations like JEE and NEET, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.


• The Delhi government envisions the board to be the answer to the current situation where students prepare for board examinations with the help of schools but have to take the help of coaching centers to clear they are engineering and medical entrance exams.

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• IIT Hyderabad researchers have developed a method by which the inner workings of Artificial Intelligence models can be understood in terms of causal attributes.


• 'Artificial Neural Networks' (ANN) are AI models and programs that mimic the working of the human brain so that machines can learn to make decisions in a more human-like manner.


• Modern ANNs, often also called Deep Learning (DL), have increased tremendously in complexity such that machines can train themselves to process and learn from data that has been supplied to them as input, and almost match human performance in many tasks.


• However, how they arrive at decisions is unknown, making them less useful when the reason for decisions is necessary.

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• Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has begun accepting examination forms for December 2019 Term End Examination (TEE).


• Students who wish to appear for the December exam can fill the exam form till October 5, 2019 without the late fine.


• Students who miss the October 5 deadline will have time till October 20 to submit examination form with Rs. 500 late fine. The examination form can be filled online only.


• Students who miss the October 20 deadline too, will be given another chance till October 31 to fill the examination form with Rs. 1000 late fine.

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• Staff Selection Commission (SSC) will declare the result of combined higher secondary level (CHSL) exam 2018 paper 1 today, on September 11.


• SSC had earlier notified through its updated calendar that the SSC CHSL 2018 result will be released on September 11. Candidates can expect the result anytime soon,


• SSC CHSL exam was conducted from July 1 to 11 for which over 29 lakh candidates had registered while 13 .17 lakh candidates had appeared for the exam. SSC had released the final answer keys on July 23.

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• Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) has declared the result of Lab Assistant recruitment exam 2019 on its official website.


• Candidates who had appeared for the TNPSC lab assistant exam can download their result from the official website at tnpsc.gov.in.


• TNPSC had conducted the lab assistant exam on June 22, 2019. Candidates can visit the official website and download the result at tnpsc.gov.in after logging in using their roll numbers.

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• The Centre’s holdings in public sector banks have seen a steep ₹1.6 lakh crore erosion in value over the past five years, even as it pumped in a massive ₹2.5 lakh crore of capital into these banks.


• But aside from costing the Centre dearly, the huge capital infusion has also led to a peculiar situation.


• Over the past five years, the stake of the government in many PSBs has shot up from 60-70 percent to over 90 percent.

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• Life insurance companies have approached the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for permission to start selling indemnity-based health insurance products once again, although general insurance companies are not too happy with the proposal.


• “Given the low penetration of health insurance in the country, there is enough scope and also requirement for sale of more of these products. Life insurance companies already sell protection for critical diseases such as cancer cover, and also have a huge distribution network across the country, which can be used to sell health insurance,” said two persons familiar with the development, adding that they have approached the regulator on the issue.

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• A gritty India survived waves of attacks from Qatar to hold the reigning Asian champion to a goalless draw and steal an unexpected point from its away match of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers here.


• Despite playing without talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri — laid low by fever — India denied Qatar, which won the Asian Cup in January, despite the home side having more than a dozen shots on target.


• Indian goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, who also wore the captain’s armband, was the star as he single-handedly balked Qatar in the Group E match.

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• India may have justified its top ranking by returning from the West Indies with optimum points in its maiden assignment of the World Test Championship.


• However, as the national selection panel sits down to select the squad for the home Test series versus South Africa, M.S.K. Prasad & Co. will be in a dilemma on how to resolve the opening combination conundrum.


• Despite Virat Kohli’s men have triumphed in its last three-Test series in the last 12 months — a rare series win in Australia sandwiched between home and away victories versus West Indies — the opening combination has been far from being stable during this period.

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• Research in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: Prof. Sibnath Deb (Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University) Child protection research, especially, focus on child abuse and neglect, student’s mental health and on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS).


• Research in Physical Sciences: Prof. Sanjay (School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) Research in non-equilibrium statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics.


• Research in Biological Sciences: Prof. Asad Ullah Khan (Inter-disciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh) Identifying Antimicrobial resistance(AMR) of spread and control of AMR.


• Research in Biological Sciences: Dr. Partima (Special Centre for Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) Research on nano biosensors and nanobiointeractions during early stage cancer diagnosis by nanomaterials bases biosensing platform.


• Technology Development: Dr. Shaon Ray Chaudhuri (Department of Microbiology, Tripura University, Tripura) Development of microbial biofilm reactor for of dairy wastewater conversion into biofertilizer.

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• Priyavrata became the youngest person to pass the“Mahapariksha” at the age of 16.


• The Mahapariksha contains 14 levels and is conducted twice in a year at Tenali(Andhra Pradesh) for the students studying ‘Shastras’ (ancient scriptures).

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• The 76th Edition of the annual Venice International Film Festival Awards for 2019 was held at Venice Lido in Italy from August 28- September, 2019. It was organized by La Biennale di Venezia and was officially recognized by FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association).


• Film The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was selected to open the festival and the film The Burnt Orange Heresy, directed by Giuseppe Capotondi was selected for the closing ceremony.

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• Founder & Chairman of Chinese firm Alibaba Groups has stepped down from his post at his 55th birthday and will remain on board till 2020. Jack will be replaced by Chief Executive Officer(CEO) Daniel Zhang as its new chairman.


• Jack Ma, a former English teacher who founded the firm in 1999 which is now worth $460 billion ,was named as China’s richest person in 2018 by Forbes magazine.

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• Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra has been appointed as the new Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, effective September 11.


• He will replace Nripendra Misra, the Prime Minister's long-serving aide who resigned last month after a five-year stint as the top bureaucrat in the central government.


• A Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to the 1972 batch, Mr. Mishra, who was previously Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, has also held posts like Secretary Agriculture & Cooperation and Chairman, State Electricity Regulatory Commission.